Since they require DMZ, seems strictly worse than Arroyo FF FW Spirits, but has anyone considered SP/FW Elemental Arroyo? SP has some nice elemental cards like the zephyr relic and the djinn abilities. Plus Ifrit having only immunity phys and 25% frost vuln means he's a ********* BEAST now, esp. if you put berserk on him.
I put together a FF arroyo bg but it looked pretty bad. I am honestly kind of regretting getting them, tbh, since I do not play FW.
riftlord is super good regardless, so putting him into elementals won't ever be bad imo. the orbs are both pretty weak
SP does not really have an elemental deck. They are decent enough, simply because they are really cheap ranged units with relevant on-hit effects.
The Farm (gives slam) Spirit Channeling (gives elemental zephyr) Zemi of the Elementals Gift of Djinn abilities can affect elementals Is about all it has so far.
You mean the Resistance. Which gives Slam. To Djinn. Which are mostly bad. Spirit Channeling requires you to run Hyeanids and is mostly pointless because Zemi also gives Zephyr.
Elemental Zephyr stacks, doesn't it? I am personally interested in Splitting it with ST for Skybreak Dragon, Whitestar and Jakei Shaman.
Testing out the ST Split. Most of the Arroyo have abilities that need Dead Magic Zone, so lots of them doesn't work. Riftlord is great. Vitality Creation can give him +20 HP in a game, in combination with Oblivion Shield, it's quite feasable to activate Arroyo Rift twice before it dies. Only other Arroyo that doesn't require DMZ are Shadestriker and Echo. I am not sure if Shadestriker is worth it, but Echo seems interesting. Whirling Quarry is actually pretty good. Seism is basically a spell, so if you think of Seism as a 25-35 ish Nora spell, it's very cheap. Thunder Elemental can deal massive damage with Sonic Surge. Peaks Ifrit gives Berserker 3 and Peaks Dao gives Reflexes 3. Reflexes is quite cool since lots of the elementals have some kind of anti Range ability. Zemi of the Elements is awesome. The ST side have great Elementals as well. Skybreak Dragon have Elemental Zephyr. Elemental Core have Tundra Menace and Sapping Armor. Jakei Shaman have Leverage: Elemental and Surge: Elemental. Whitestar have Elemental Burst.
DMZs aren't required for Arroyo, though they do help most of them. Echo: No dependency. Flamewisp: Rift bound can be replaced with Vulnerability: Physical. No further dependency. Riftlord: No dependency. Shadestriker: Rift bound can be replaced with Vulnerability: Magic. No further dependency. Smokeform: Dark awakening can be replaced with adaptive. Rift nova requires DMZ to work. Lack of DMZ isn't fatal. Storm Orb: Rift bound can be replaced with Vulnerability: Physical. Dark Sanctuary requires DMZ.
Dread field can also trigger rift nova. So Shadestrikers, riftlords and echoes can all make it so that units take damage from rift nova so it isn't total sandbag material.
Shadestriker is amazing for its price! After you drop Zemi of the Elements and give it zerker 3 it gets like 10 speed and 17+ damage!
I meant the FF SP Arroyo Elementals... Arroyo are meant to be played as a SP/FW split with x2 Lich Magistrates and x2 Whirling Quarries along with x2 Peak Ifit.